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Income Growth in Peru: who is on Board and who is Left Behind?

Analysing the Peruvian data from 2004 to 2019, this article shows how income growth has been beneficial for some groups of the society, but how it left other groups behind.

September 15, 2022 | News and Events | read more »

Explaining the child poverty outcomes of Japan, South Korea and Taiwan

Child poverty rates are relatively low in East Asia. The authors present common characteristics contributing to their relative poverty success.

September 15, 2022 | News and Events | read more »

The Paradox of Redistribution in Time

This article supplies various indicators to measure how pro-poor or pro-rich social benefits are.

September 15, 2022 | News and Events | read more »

Unpacking Poverty in Luxembourg: Evolution of Poverty Rates by Household Type and Immigration Background- 2015-2019

The authors are looking in the new Luxembourgish data from 2015 to 2019, to identify population sub-groups with high poverty rates

June 15, 2022 | News | read more »

France is back: a new series to help understand recent and old French dynamics of inequalities (1970-2018)

In this article, Louis Chauvel is comparing results based on the newly available data series from the Tax Income Survey against the previously available data from the household budget survey

June 15, 2022 | News | read more »

Invitation to the 2022 LIS Summer Lecture on “The geography of income mobility”

LIS is happy to invite you to the 2022 Summer Lecture on “The geography of income mobility” – Monday, July 4th 2022

June 15, 2022 | News and Events | read more »

The Atlas of Inequality Aversion: A New Dataset added to the LIS Complementary Database

A dataset on country-specific estimates of Inequality Aversion added to the LIS Complementary Databases.

June 15, 2022 | News and Events | read more »

LIS granted the Aldi Award for 2021 LIS Working Paper

Xabier Garcia-Fuente is the winner of the 2021 LIS Aldi Award

June 10, 2022 | News and Events | read more »

Global Trends in Intergenerational Income Inequality?

In this article, the authors conduct a global, coherent, and in-depth analysis of intergenerational income inequality using the LIS data.

June 1, 2022 | News and Events | read more »

Call for Papers for the 11th Young Economists Conference 2022 “Political Economy of Power”

Call for Papers for the 11th Young Economists Conference 2022 “Political Economy of Power”. Pre-conference workshop on the introduction to LIS data will take place on October 6th.

April 5, 2022 | News and Events | read more »